Press Release: Planet Save Fail - COP16 Film Release

[Adrian Guerrero]

Please forward-

I was working with this media group at COP16. They have put together a film project in cooperation with the Glass Bead Collective on COP16´s failure, the real solutions from alternative summits, and the resistance to the UNFCCC meeting (both local and international). One of the films was produced entirely by me. More to come.

 

Adrian Guerrero

-------------

 

PLANET SAVE FAIL - COP16 DECONSTRUCTION

For Immediate Release: December 12, 2010

Contacts
Stormy Staats (Mobile Broadcast News) - 530.598.1670
Vlad Teichberg (Glass Bead Collective)- 347.688.8523


A short film linked in the form of a youtube play list produced by Mobile
Broadcast News during COP16 in Cancun, Mexico has been release in the
aftermath of the failed UN climate change negotiations. Each piece has been
designed to be impactual as an individual pieces or when watched in its
entire playlist, provide a broader commentary on the hypocrisy of the event
as a whole.  The link to the movie is at:
 *
http://mobilebroadcastnews.com/COP16.html*

You can also see the entire playlist and re-embed it into your blog/web page
at
 http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=028EE24DAA4E7985

COP16 seen from inside and from the streets was an exercise in futility.
 With special interests and greed driving the negotiation process, it is
becoming more a more clear that the UN framework, which is driven by
governments which in many ways do not represent the people is not the most
ideal framework for solving the problem at hand.

One of the main focuses of this meeting was the REDD proposal - a market
based solution to deforestation issues that would have effectively
stripped indigenous communities of their land world wide, and would have
provided treaty level laws to streamline the process.  This example of
corporate greed trumping the need to address common needs and goals was not
finalized, but it dominated the discussions at this summit to a point that
none of the other pressing issues related to climate change were addressed
at the meeting.

Planet Save Fail - Cop16 Deconstruction is released the day after COP16
ended, illustrating both the hypocrisy of some of the participants and the
actual administration of the conference, but also shows a perspective of
people on the streets, outside the negotiation hall, shut out of the
decision making process that is affecting all of our future.

With the news and context of the latest global climate change meeting coming
to the front today and tomorrow we encourage you to share this link across
all social networks, and encourage your friends to share it as well over the
next few days.

Full coverage from Mobile Broadcast News:
http://mobilebroadcastnews.com/MBN/story/Cancun-COP16


--
"What I believe is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect." -- Emma Goldman

"It is disingenuous to invoke 'democracy,' 'due process of law,' 'non-violence,' to rationalise the absence of action. For meaningful concepts under such conditions become meaningless... they justify the relentless exploitation of the masses; at once a denial of democracy and a more sinister form of violence perpetrated on the overwhelming majority through contractual forms." -- from "Chomsky on Anarchism," AK Press